2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sarasota, FL vs Lake City, FL

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Highlights
- Lake City spends 28.5% less per student than Sarasota.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 15.7% higher in Lake City than in Sarasota. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Lake City had 2.4% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLLake City, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,618$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,778  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,373$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.38  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock7634573
 Students per Counselor406  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.7%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.6%1.5%
Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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Reviews for Lake City    6 Reviews

I have been here 7 years and until Covid hit, I thought is was okay despite a large number of Confederate flags. Covid brought the worst in people. I have been  More

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Over 16 years ago

You can always build a place of worship or build Jewish community. The Muslims just build their place of worship here and many Christians have their churches. Why  More

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I have lived all over the country from Missouri, Pennsylvania, and have finally found my niche here in Lake City, Florida. I love it here, and with the church I  More

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